{"id":11018,"date":"2011-09-08T14:29:02","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T18:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=11018"},"modified":"2011-09-08T14:29:02","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T18:29:02","slug":"give-google-places-your-opinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/08\/give-google-places-your-opinion\/","title":{"rendered":"Give Google Places Your Opinion!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has just rolled out another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/moderator\/#16\/e=ba1ca\">moderated forum<\/a> where users can provide suggestions and opinions as to how to improve Google Places. Here is the full text of the <a href=\"http:\/\/googlesmb.blogspot.com\/2011\/09\/ask-us-your-google-places-for-business.html\">announcement<\/a>:<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Ask us your Google Places for business questions<\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Thursday, September 8, 2011 | 10:51 AM<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<p>A little more than a year ago,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/google-latlong.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/learn-more-about-google-places-all-in.html\">we collected<\/a>\u00a0your questions and feedback on Google Places for business via a Google Moderator page. You sent us some great feedback, and we had a blast responding! Check out our video responses\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/GooglePlaces#grid\/user\/B2743DB48CBBDDB2\">here on YouTube<\/a>, covering things like features of a listing, Report a problem and ranking.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s important to us to continue hearing your great feedback \u2014 and we suspect you&#8217;ve had a lot of questions and ideas throughout the past year \u2014 so let&#8217;s fire up another Moderator page. Starting today and for the next two weeks, you can\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/moderator\/#16\/e=ba1ca\">submit your questions and ideas<\/a>, as well as vote up other submissions from users. We&#8217;ll answer some of the more popular questions directly on the page and post a new video or two to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/googleplaces\">Google Places YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/moderator\/#16\/e=ba1ca\">Start sharing your ideas<\/a>\u00a0right now, and stay tuned to us here on the Small Business Blog to see a roundup of responses.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Whether this was in response to the NY Times <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/09\/06\/technology\/closed-in-error-on-google-places-merchants-seek-fixes.html\">article<\/a> earlier in the week or not is open to conjecture. The article has generated over <a href=\"http:\/\/community.nytimes.com\/comments\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/09\/06\/technology\/closed-in-error-on-google-places-merchants-seek-fixes.html\">108 user comments<\/a> to date.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, kudos to Google for picking <a href=\"http:\/\/google-latlong.blogspot.com\/2011\/09\/combatting-spammy-closed-listing-labels.html\">tackling the problems <\/a>head on and <strong>working<\/strong> to improve Places more quickly.<\/p>\n<p>May I suggest that you post at both the <a href=\"http:\/\/google-latlong.blogspot.com\/2011\/09\/combatting-spammy-closed-listing-labels.html\">NY Times Comment Section<\/a> and the Google Ask Us Your Places Question <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/moderator\/#16\/e=ba1ca\">forum<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has just rolled out another moderated forum where users can provide suggestions and opinions as to how to improve Google Places. Here is the full text of the announcement: Ask us your Google Places for business questions Thursday, September 8, 2011 | 10:51 AM A little more than a year ago,\u00a0we collected\u00a0your questions and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-maps-google-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11018"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11021,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11018\/revisions\/11021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}